From: Chema Celorio <chema@ximian.com> To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org Subject: Control center 1.5.8 Date: 02 Oct 2001 19:24:33 -0500 Version 1.5.8 of the GNOME Control Center, as well as the capplet library and the supplementary capplets (control-center-plus) is now available. This new version of the GNOME Control Center depends on GAL 0.12, as opposed to the previous version which required GAL 0.9. This is a bugfix release. * Availability The new control center is available at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/control-center/control-center-1.5.8.tar.gz The advanced capplets are available at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/control-center-plus/control-center-plus-1.5.8.tar.gz The capplet library is available at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/libcapplet/libcapplet-1.5.8.tar.gz * What's new - Refactored background rendering code; in particular translucent backgrounds should now render properly - The bonobo-conf capplets now have Apply and Close buttons, rather than Ok and Cancel, to be more in tune with the Setup Tools. - The rollback capplet dialog has similar changes - Many, many bug fixes and cleanups * Installation instructions and prerequisites This version of the control center requires the following packages in addition to the GNOME 1.4 platform: * bonobo-conf 0.12, available at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/bonobo-conf/bonobo-conf-0.12.tar.gz * pkgconfig 0.8, available at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/releases/pkgconfig-0.8.0.tar.gz * gtkhtml >= 0.9 (0.14.0 preferred), available at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gtkhtml/gtkhtml-0.14.0.tar.gz * gal >= 0.12, available at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gal/gal-0.12.tar.gz In addition, libcapplet must be compiled before control-center or control-center-plus Please download and try this out. If you have any questions or comments, please consult gnomecc-list@gnome.org or #xst on GNOME IRC. Thank you. _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list gnome-announce-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list